Types of GBV

This database registers any cases that are solved in the court under Criminal Code, Administrative Offences Code and Civil Code

Purpose of data collection

Monitoring

Professional indemnity

Accountability

Other purpose:

Administrative support to Court.

Data available on

Victim

Background information

Age

Sex

Nationality

ID

Name

Ethnicity

Marital status

Dependants

Other:

Employment, address, profession, education

Relationship with perpetrator

No

Repeatedly suffering from GBV

No

Perpetrator

Background information

Age

Sex

Nationality

ID

Name

Ethnicity

Marital status

Dependants

Other:

Education, employment, address

Relationship with victim

No

Additional information:

This means that this kind of information is not recorded by this data source.

Re-offending

No

Witness

Background information

Age

Sex

Nationality

ID

Name

Ethnicity

Marital status

Dependants

Other:

Address

Relationship with victim/perpetrator

No

Incident description by witness

No

Children witnessing IPV incident

No information available

Incident

Code system used

Criminal justice

No codes specific to VAW, codes only refer to the Criminal Code articles

Description of incident

Date/time

Harm/injuries

Location

Type of violence

Other:

Geographical location of the case (according to the provided information about courts, which investigate the case).

Protection order

Yes

Information appears as types of court's sentences.

Civil justice data

Yes

Additional information:

The court usually mark the case if civil proceedings starts. This is not specifically related to the cases of domestic violence but in general any started civil proceeding will appear in the system.

Incident respond resources

Human resources

Financial resources

Other resources

Prosecution process

Stages of prosecution process

Withdrawals of complaints

Withdrawals of prosecution support

N. of cases reported for each incident

N. of cases initiated for each type of incident

N. of cases referred to court

Types of offense(s)

Other:

Data provides evidence about whole process of a case.

Defendant pleas/verdicts

Guilty pleas

Guilty verdicts

Other:

All final court's verdicts are attached. It should be noted that information about the verdict is made anonymous following data protection regulations.

Average time case through criminal justice system

Yes

Outcomes

Perpetrator

N. of cases resulting in arrest

No

Charged with more than one offense

Yes

List of offenses

Yes

There is a special card of the offender where information about charges appear.

Probation

Yes

Prisons

Yes

Time period in prison.

Victim

Death as result of incident

No

A verdict of a court is enclosed to the paper file of the decision but it does not all information appear in the system.

Characteristics

Storage System

In paper form

Electronically (single files)

Electronically (database)

Other:

Each court has its own regulations on collecting data about a case. The case itself is in paper file, but data on the incident, participants of the process and court decision appear in electronic files which constitute the Lithuanian Court Information System (LITEKO) database.

Frequency of updating

Ongoing

Quality assurance process

The Council of Courts approved the regulations in 2006 (Order No. 13P-424, January 6, 2006) on procedures to register the cases in the LITEKO system. It is required to register the received by a court procedural documents, register number in the system, launching a court case, registration of persons participating in the process, incidences of the investigated process, registration of the documents of the process, verdicts of the process, timing of investigation in the court, checked and added information to the process, methods of search. The courts register the materials and National court administration controls and supervises the process and can identify the persons who entered data. Training for court employees responsible for registering data are periodically organized by the National court administration.

Comparability

Geographical

Over time

None

Timeliness

Immediately

Additional information:

It is immediately recorded when the court process start.

Current developments

The National Court Administration participates in the EU-support project E-Proceeding (E-byla) which aims at uniting efforts of different institutions that are involved in criminal process and provide shared data base on criminal proceeding. Recently the National Court Administration launched the project to provide electronically data from LITEKO to the Register of Suspected, Offended and Convicted. Previously this information was transferred in paper files. This will allow to share data about convicted not only in Lithuania but also in the EU. The pilot works of uniting both databases will be finalised in May 2013.

Relation with third parties

Reported to third parties

Yes

Name of organisation:

Prosecutor's Offices, attorneys

Used by third parties:

No

Reporter

Victim

Witness

Offender

Other:

Usually the prosecutor submits the application to the court about the case.